[EM] Re: Efforts to improve on CR's strategy

2004-05-21 Thread Chris Benham
One way to look at this is that with one issue, you basically have two types of candidates: liberal (positive CP) and conservative (negative CP). Candidates can be "strong" or "weak" liberals (or conservatives) based on the magnitude of their CP's. Similarly, voters are either liberal (normali

Re: [EM] Re: Efforts to Improve on CR's Strategy

2004-05-20 Thread Brian Olson
On May 20, 2004, at 6:03 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote: Here's a conceptual example that I think better illustrates the problem that I observed. Suppose you vote in an election in which there are 6 candidates and you have no idea how anyone else votes. Your sincere CR profile for candidates A ... F is

[EM] Re: Efforts to Improve on CR's Strategy

2004-05-20 Thread MIKE OSSIPOFF
Bart had said: ... In your 10 candidate, 1 issue trial, are you able to account for why sincere CR, exaggerated CR, Condorcet, Borda, IRV, and Plurality all yield exactly the same average across 100,000 elections? It looks like top-two Runoff is within 0.1% of the same score. I think it's simply